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Mexico signs up with France...
2002-10-28
Suman notes that Mexico has aligned itself with the Frenchies on the question of Iraq. Is there a quid for the quo?
Mexican officials acknowledge this move as an attempt to open up the Mexican border with France for migrant workers looking to load up crates of wine and fat-butt geese at marketplaces France-wide. This is seen as a latest attempt by Vincente "Foxy" Fox to exert economic pressure over the United States refusal to tear down the already porous US-Mexican border...

It is rumored that France will allow unlimited immigration from Mexico, in part to boost their sagging economy, and in part to shame their Muslim minorities, while respecting the sanctity of euro-bashing political correctness. "The Mexicans will bring their work ethic, their love of salsa, their very large-.. er, well-proportioned women, their cheerful love of life and commerce." gasped the breathless spokeswoman as she gamely fought off several new insta-fatwas lobbied her way by the local county Shariah process servers. "We hope they can confuse and entice our other, more beleaguered minorities who seem to have tired of life and our paradise welfare state. We have been unable to make them feel good about themselves and neither can we feel good about ourselves any more. "
Are there mariachi bands in the future of Lyons and Marseilles? Stay tuned...
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#10  Everyone says this is a US war for oil, but they have it wrong. It is a French/Russian/Mexican non-war for oil.

Come to think of it, its not even a war, its enforcing the peace that came after the last war. The current peace movement movement makes me embarassed to be a pacifist.
Posted by: PJ   2002-10-29 13:56:25  

#9  Cinco de Mayo will never be the same!
Posted by: lockbox   2002-10-29 13:01:49  

#8  Probably the most venerated holiday in the French Foreign Legion is a result of a battle they lost in Mexico called "Camerone".

Its almost a 'high holy day' to the French.
Posted by: Frank Martin   2002-10-29 12:57:11  

#7  Annex Mexico!
Posted by: Anonymous   2002-10-29 11:31:51  

#6  Damn..I shoulda stayed more alert in Geography...where is that "Mexican border with France"?
Posted by: Frank G   2002-10-29 10:59:23  

#5  Say, wasn't Mexico once a military colony of France? If I remember, (no, I wasn't there)in 1862 the French Emperor Napoleon III intervened militarily in México: an empire was established from 1864 to 1867, under the Austrian prince Maximilian of Hapsburg.

On the 5th of May 1862, General Ignacio Zaragoza, named Major General of the Army by the government of Juárez, obtained victory in the Battle of Puebla against the French.

Should we send this to "Foxy" and remind him that (to paraphrase the Gipper) getting in bed with Chirac may be more than a good night's sleep.
Posted by: Anonymous   2002-10-29 10:21:07  

#4  Fox is worried about a drop in oil prices, and wants to keep Iraq's wells off the market. France wants to keep buying cut-rate oil from Iraq under the "oil for food" program.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2002-10-29 10:17:20  

#3  I wonder if Presidente Fox would welcome tearing down the 'already porous US-Mexician border' if it meant we could send our marshals, police, and soldiers into the lairs of their corrupt politicos and drug money pits. I suspect there would be a scream about respecting national sovereignty, theirs, not ours.
Posted by: Don   2002-10-29 09:35:31  

#2  Ole! Use the Mexicans to chase the AIG back to the arms of the Algerian government, and solve Mexico's unemployment problem at the same time. I'm all for it.
Posted by: Anonymous   2002-10-28 19:41:43  

#1  It'd be a damn fine improvement...
Posted by: G   2002-10-28 19:31:03  

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